Marvin’s is the best, IMHO…but the greatest has to be the one that gets George, John, Ben, Thomas, James and Dolly and all the rest to wave their freak flags high:
Can’t beat that. Just can’t.
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In other news — one more follow up to my conversation with Russ Rymer about his book Paris Twilight. (Did I mention that I really think you might enjoy that book? I did? Righty-o. Carry on.)
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On Tuesday night I went to Russ’s reading/launch celebration at the venerable and wonderful Harvard Book Store right smack in Harvard Square. I got there just as Russ was getting ready to go, so I had to stand in the back (yup, an SRO reading of a first novel. Nice.) I looked over — and this truly is Cambridge insider baseball, for which I apologize — and I saw one of those only-in-02138*-juxtapositions:
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Perched at the end of the book shelf, Mr. Austerity-Now-Austerity-Forever-Who-Checked-My-Excel-Worksheet-(and-More) Ken Rogoff. Next to him, John Summers, editor of the take-no-prisoners relaunch of the cult left-critical magazine The Baffler. I talked to John after the event and he hadn’t realized who his neighbor was, which, in retrospect, was probably a good thing for the general decorum of the event. But I was snickering the whole time.
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That’s it from me. Too damn hot. Heading to the beach in a couple of hours, then to the Cambridge side of the Charles for the usual extravaganza. Go Tchaikovsky! (A duck may be someone’s mother, also too.)
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*Harvard’s zip code
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ETA: Just to lay a little metal down on top of the acid, here’s Metallica offering up their take at a Giants game:
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I particularly liked the fret inlays.
Corner Stone
Well…hmmm. What’s French for “nothingburger” ?
France ‘has vast data surveillance’ – Le Monde report
“The data is stored on a supercomputer at the headquarters of the DGSE intelligence service, the paper says.
The operation is “outside the law, and beyond any proper supervision”, Le Monde says. “
Firebert
Love the Hendrix and other stuff posted. I grew up getting pummeled with Lee Greenwood, and he just makes me want to go burn a flag.
jeffreyw
Still heartbroken over losing our Buddy. He was a real good boy and we all miss him.
Villago Delenda Est
Glorious.
Villago Delenda Est
@jeffreyw:
Damn. What a beautiful Spaniel Buddy was. Friend to cats, too.
It’s little wonder he’s missed…you can feel his gentle disposition in those two pictures.
cckids
@jeffreyw: So sorry to hear about Buddy, my condolences.
Keith
My July 4th story – I went to see Willie Nelson’s 4th of July picnic back in 1999 or 2000. Willie was baked out of his mind, and it probably wasn’t the reason, but he sang some song – either America the Beautiful or God Bless America – four separate times. The funny thing about it is that I had seen him play at a smaller venue the year before, and he played Whiskey River 2 or 3 times in the same show. I’m sure no one complained, but he’s the only performer I’ve ever seen play the same song more than once in a single show.
Betty Cracker
@jeffreyw: Awww, he was a sweetie — it shows in those pictures. I’m sorry for your loss.
Roger Moore
I just finished making a batch of orange-ginger frozen yogurt, which should be fantastic later in the day when it gets hot. No big plans for the day, except to drink plenty of good American beer.
SFAW
One hopes that 02139 would not let that hack Rogoff anywhere near it. Considering the likes of those who have passed through the ivied walls of Teh University Up The River (W, Mittens, Zuckerberg), it suits him better anyway.
And as far as Jimi and the Anthem, why not a two-fer? (Although, with all the Anthem-related threads today, someone prolly already mentioned it.)
Felonius Monk
My wife was there the morning that Jimi played the National Anthem. She says it still gives her shivers when she hears it.
On another note, Mr. Pierce asks a piercing and thought provoking question today: Do you govern or are you governed?
Happy Birthday, America! Happy 4th to all Balloon-Juicers, even the cranky ones.
SFAW
@jeffreyw:
jeffrey –
Sincerest condolences on the loss of your beautiful puppy.
pokeyblow
@jeffreyw: My condolences. Losing a beloved pet is so hard. Take care.
Betty Cracker
Apropos of nothing, but holy balls, is Dan Brown a godawful writer. My mom left her copy of “Inferno” here when she was house sitting during our recent vacation. Feeling nostalgic for pulp, I picked it up this morning and got about five pages in before I hurled it with great force across the room.
It opens with the usual protagonist waking up from a mysterious head injury in a hospital room. The doctor asks him who he is, and he explains that he is Robert Whozit, an art history and symbology professor from Harvard.
At which point, the doctor says — and I swear this is a close approximation of the actual quote: “You’re an American? You didn’t have any ID, and since you were wearing Harris tweed and Somerset loafers, we assumed you were British.”
OMFG.
maya
@jeffreyw: So sorry about losing your Buddy. Our Buddy, almost 5 Pibby, likes the cat but she doesn’t like him – or anyone else for that matter. She had a rough kittenhood so I give her some slack but there are times…….
JPL
@jeffreyw: It’s so darn difficult to lose a pet. Hugs to you, your wife and your menagerie.
Violet
@jeffreyw: So sorry to hear about Buddy. Didn’t know until now. What a sweetie and that photo with the kitty is just amazing. Condolences.
burnspbesq
Lest we forget, a great song of America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s
FlipYrWhig
@Corner Stone: “Royale with cheese.”
Violet
@Keith: Oh! Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic. I went one summer when I was 19 years old. Was drunk by 9:00 a.m. and hungover by noon. Just kept drinking. It was the craziest day. Had to work the next day. Man…that was rough. At least I’d gone with a girl I worked with, so we could commiserate with each other the following day.
Amazing time. Can’t even remember the lineup, but it was a fantastic day. Willie. So good.
FlipYrWhig
@jeffreyw: so sorry jeffreyw.
Felonius Monk
@jeffreyw: Condolences. What a beautiful dog.
trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
Amazon has been flogging it as a Kindle “daily deal” for weeks. I took it as a sign and stayed well clear–thanks for backing my non-play.
Speaking of things I’d like to fling across the room–our forecast. 106+thunderstorms. The hell?
trollhattan
@jeffreyw:
Damn, so very sorry,
Xenos
This is the first time I have heard the Hendrix version in 20 years, and the only time sober. It holds up quite well.
Violet
@Betty Cracker: A few months ago when they were promoting the hell out of his recent book on the Today Show, I happened to see a snippet of the tour of Dan Brown’s home. It’s creepy, with hidden rooms and various dark and scary things. I think he had it custom built.
He seems like a weirdo who has lucked into doing something that sells well. More power to him and no accounting for taste, I guess. I’ve never seen the appeal. And Tom Hanks looks like an idiot when he plays the lead role in those movies. His hair!
lojasmo
@jeffreyw:
What a beautiful dog. Obviously had a sterling disposition. Very sorry for your loss.
Went running with a buddy in our woods. Later pizza with friends, then coming home to keep the dog from going nuts during the fireworks.
Boy is hanging with the dudes. He’ll go to fireworks, and mom and I can play.
Oooh! For Minnesota folks, Surly has a one off western IPA called Overrated.
Tom Levenson
@jeffreyw: Adding my condolences to the list. So tough to lose a companion like that.
raven
At the 98 VaTech-Bama Music City Bowl “Jazz musician Larry Carlton (Steely Dan) performed the traditional pre-game playing of the national anthem, but his rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner did not meet with the crowd’s approval, and he was booed.” It was Hendrixesque and as soon as he started I looked at my wife and said “these goobers are going to go nuts”! They did.
raven
@jeffreyw: Damn brother, just damn.
Comrade Mary
@jeffreyw: NOOOOO! I’m so, so sorry. Buddy made me smile every time I saw a picture of him. Hugs to everyone in the household.
dewzke
Here is one awesome version…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaGftxRkgPI
Amir Khalid
@Betty Cracker:
Someone here recently linked to an article — from the Daily Mail, I think — which derided his prose as “clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive.”
gelfling545
@Betty Cracker: I read The DaVinci Code when it came out. I was never so disappointed in my life – well, hardly ever. I guess a lot of its success was due to the shock value of the Mary Magdalene material which other people had been writing about for at least a decade but was news to a lot of folks. Still, he writes this enormous chasing about Europe scenario which should have led to something significant & can’t even manage to have anything at all happen at the end. I started another of his books because it was there when I was stuck somewhere with nothing to read and didn’t even finish the first chapter – and I never leave books, even bad ones, unfinished as a matter of principle. Still, I was willing to make an exception in Brown’s case.
Infamous Heel-Filcher
The Metallica SSB: righteous.
lol chikinburd
Sounds more like a screen with its screen caught in a screen door.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idQfHAyJO0Y
Comrade Mary
@Amir Khalid: Close-ish: it was the Telegraph.
SFAW
@Betty Cracker:
Betty –
At the risk of sounding like a know-it-all/snob/dork: you’re just figuring that out NOW? After reading “Da DaVinci Code,” I tried reading “Digital Fortress.” What a piece of crap! Frankly, if the “author” had been born in the early 1800s, we’d be calling it “The Dan Brown Contest” instead of The Bulwer-Lytton Contest.
On the other hand, if enough people petition that Committee in Stockholm (or wherever it is), we might get him nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for Bad Writing.
And don’t get me started on Christopher Paolini …
Litlebritdifrnt
@jeffreyw:
So sorry to hear of your loss. I know at a time like this there is probably very little that will make you smile but perhaps knowing your baby Buddy was more than likely a lot smarter than these folks
https://twitter.com/gutjahr/status/352832149394714624/photo/1
will lighten the mood a little. I had a Spaniel called Buddy too, except he was a black and white version. I still miss him all these years later. Hugs.
MazeDancer
Adam Lambert at Broadway Bares Benefit couple weeks ago (June 23rd) was mighty impressive on the SSB. Small clip is all that seems to have been captured: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJu9d2TVghg&feature=youtu.be
But Lambert was also quite good on the National Anthem for Spielberg at an ADL benefit a while back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlhlgJ1pQxo
Scotty
This should be our national anthem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M
SFAW
@Comrade Mary:
Thanks for posting that, it was good fun.
mellowjohn
@Betty Cracker: better to hurl the book than breakfast.
trollhattan
@Comrade Mary:
Filleted and left on the dock, I’d say. Golf clap.
SFAW
@mellowjohn:
Not clear that she didn’t. Could have been a lose-lose-lose situation thingy.
Roger Moore
@gelfling545:
Dan Brown has something for everyone. His books are fun to read for people who don’t particularly care about literary style, and fun to make fun of for people who do.
different-church-lady
Otherwise known as “The only bookstore left in Harvard Square.” Remember when you couldn’t whirl a cat in Harvard Square without hitting a bookstore? The loss of Wordsworth still hurts.
gogol's wife
@jeffreyw:
I’m so sorry. What a beautiful dog.
gogol's wife
@Betty Cracker:
I just about made it through the first one, laughing in disbelief all the way that so many people were reading this tripe! But I’ve never tried any of the other ones.
different-church-lady
@Corner Stone: Ah, well now we know why they shot down Morales’ plane.
Dee Loralei
@jeffreyw: I am so sorry Jeffrey, I loved Buddy the minute I saw his picture. Some dogs are just that special and Buddy truly was. Deepest condolences to your entire clan two and four footed.
Tom Levenson
@different-church-lady: Yup; used to be a book mecca there. But the Barnes and Noble masquerading as the Harvard Coop is actually a good store, so Harvard ain’t the only one. And the Grolier is still there, waving the poetry flag, and I think Schoenhof’s still has all them furrin books for sale. I miss the used stores, though, and you’re right. Wordsworth was a great place (even if its owner was kind of a flake.) Curious George filled my son’s bookshelf for years as well, another gone.
I’m going to cry into my beer now.
Rick Massimo
That’s totally going to be my new I-didn’t-like-your-band-but-I-have-to-say-something-nice phrase.
Betty Cracker
@gelfling545: I used to be compulsive about finishing books, but lately, if it sucks, I walk away. Life is too short.
I’m not a book snob. If a story is interesting, I can put up with ham-handed prose. But good lord, I won’t be clubbed over the head with stupid in every single paragraph; I do have my standards.
gogol's wife
@different-church-lady:
Have these people been living under a rock or what? What is there that is new about this???? I just can’t figure it out. I keep trying to put myself in their shoes, but I have been reading newspapers my whole life.
gogol's wife
@Betty Cracker:
Try Ken Follett. He’s popular but (usually) pretty good.
Poopyman
@jeffreyw: Peace to you and Buddy’s family. The best measure of a pet is the size of the hole they leave.
Betty Cracker
@different-church-lady: I’m still searching for an account of l’affaire Morales that fits my preconceived political narrative.
Roger Moore
@Corner Stone:
Spy agency has been spying, citizens are shocked to learn.
catclub
@Betty Cracker: Read Dante, or James Joyce, or Proust or Faulkner. There is a reason they are respected.
Or Cervantes – amazingly modern novel.
different-church-lady
@lol chikinburd: One of their best tracks. They put on a mind-bending live show.
gogol's wife
@catclub:
But on the 4th of July when it’s 90 degrees?
different-church-lady
@Betty Cracker: Well, there’s plenty to choose from, but why not just make up your own? That seems to be what everyone else is doing.
catclub
@gelfling545: Look up “Gospel” by Wilton Barnhardt, much better story than Brown.
He also wrote “Emma Who Saved my Life” which I also enjoyed.
It is a partial plug, we went to the same schools from 1st to 12th grade.
The Pale Scot
No Anthem, but Yellowman is nice patio music. Especially while sipping a large cup of Simply Lemonade with Mango with some vodka stirred in.
Oh, it’s starting to rain, gotta go cool off.
Jah Jah, gotta keep on moving ya, to where I can’t be found.
Neddie Jingo
Kirk & James could’ve used a couple more runthroughs beforehand. A trifle clammy.
Don’t mean to be a buzzkill, but the Natural Anthem ain’t exactly “Flight of the Bumblebee.”
different-church-lady
@gogol’s wife: I’m sensing unfortunate (but much more benign) similarities between the current zeitgeist and the day-care sex-abuse hysteria.
“Government reading your mail!!!” is the new “Death Panels!!!”
Betty Cracker
@catclub: Uh, I didn’t mean to give the impression that I am unaware of the world of literature outside the Walgreen’s bargain bin. I have a degree in English (albeit from a football school) and am familiar with the canon. But thanks!
different-church-lady
@catclub: Proust is the only guaranteed sleep-aid in my life.
different-church-lady
Betting game: what will be the odds of my finding hot dog buns when I go to the supermarket at 4 PM?
raven
@Betty Cracker: I have this weird thing, I almost never read a book that someone else gives me.
Emma
@jeffreyw: Oh, Jeffrey. I am so sorry.
Neddie Jingo
Marc Maron had a podcast pretty recently in which he chatted with John Fogerty for quite a while. John’s recounting of the Dateful Bread’s incompetence at Woodstock, which led to CCR going on in the wee hours — playing to about three people still awake — and Jimi actually having to end the festival at 7 AM — playing to pretty much nobody — is a very amusing listen. If you like your dishes served cold, it’s pretty good, in an idols-with-feet-of-clay kind of way.
I am not a kook
I bet James Hetfield can’t play a string instrument without taking that wide legged metal guitarist stance with arm waving. I’d like to see him play Greensleeves on a ukulele :)
Emma
@gelfling545: I skipped the book and saw the movie. My sister, who did both, swears to this day that it was the only time in her life she thought the movie was better than the book. Though, as she puts it, it was a damn low hurdle.
Betty Cracker
@raven: I was on bed rest for weeks one time (high risk pregnancy), and my grandmother kept bringing me books from the “Left Behind” series. If anyone deserves to roast in hell for literary offenses, it’s that old woman.
Surreal American
OT: Happy 75th Birthday, Bill Withers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPoTGyWT0Cg
Martin
@Roger Moore: Indeed. Let’s bottom line this:
Every first and second world nation (and some 3rd) has spy agencies. Their job is to spy on other countries and groups within their own borders. It has been like this for hundreds of years. The founders were spying on the citizenry as well. Nothing new here.
raven
@Betty Cracker: Dang
Neddie Jingo
@jeffreyw: Very sorry to hear. We buried our dear old Django two Mondays ago, which we’re all still learning to deal with. Was just out on the bike coming home from the Purcellville parade, and it suddenly hit me that he wouldn’t be home waiting for me, and I’m afraid I had to let the wind blow away a manly tear.
Cancer, it may have been pointed out before, sucks.
Betty Cracker
FOOD BLEG: Anyone got a great salad / homemade dressing recipe to share? I’m all out of ideas. Has to be something somewhat fancy and include greens of some kind. Thanks!
Emma
@Betty Cracker: I encountered those through The Slacktivist blog. Holy Mither.
Corner Stone
Ha ha ha. Spy agencies spying. Yawn. They do this. Known. No biggie to me. Burger.
We’re all so world weary. It’s quite a burden to know all these things and not give a damn they are illegal and without supervision. Sigh.
gogol's wife
@Betty Cracker:
Okay, you lost me at “somewhat fancy.” My fallback salad is cherry tomatoes and cucumbers sliced and tossed with vinegar, oil, a bit of sugar, dill, and crumbled feta cheese. Delicious but not fancy at all.
Francis
Book purchased.
gelfling545
@Betty Cracker: I read all sorts of things, some that many people might consider junk. I like good literature but I like a good story even more. Brown has had some material for good stories but they don’t seem to have gone anywhere. Whether it’s high literature or mind candy it should not leave you feeling “Who cares?”.
Tom levenson
@Betty Cracker: Watermelon feta and, for greens, scallions and parsley. (not very green, I know.) sherry viniagrette (sp?). Very good summer salad.
More to come…
different-church-lady
@Corner Stone: If I were you I wouldn’t vote for Obama in the next French election.
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
One more way that California hates freedom, I guess. The state only allows “safe and sane” fireworks anywhere, and cities and counties are free to ban even those ones if they choose.
PurpleGirl
@Litlebritdifrnt: Oh Sh*t. Are those people ever DUMB. They are too dumb to live.
Juju
@jeffreyw:
Buddy was a beautiful boy. I’m sorry for your loss.
Here is a poem from a card a friend sent to me when my Minnie May died. It is by Ilsa Paschal Richardson, and has helped me cope when I have been in the same situation you are in now.
Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you.
I loved you so…Twas heaven here with you.
To this day I can’t get through that without tearing up.
different-church-lady
@efgoldman: I don’t know why my brain has forgotten the Coop exists. Truth told, I spent most of my Harvard Square time in movie houses and record shops. (Surprisingly, there’s still two used record shops in Harvard Square).
I do remember passing Wordsworth one day in the 90s and seeing a couple wresting four milk crates of books up the stairs to the curb. I overheard the husband say to someone, “We don’t have bookstores in Minnesota!”
scav
@gelfling545: Oddly, the #1 emotion I felt after reading my single experience was annoyence that he thought so little of the intelligence of his reader. The very structure was rote formulaic and repetitive (no chapter without cliff! and the pantheon of ex machina gods multiplied and resolved like the brooms in Fantasia) and then there was the quality of characterization and prose etc. Does he really think we can be manipulated and satified so easily? More fool me, there is a market. And I’ve read and enjoyed some seriously fine crap.
MattR
Late to the thread, bit I like Michael Winslow’s acapella cover of Hendrix’s version of our anthem.
trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
Now don’t be too harsh on gramma, she might have been in a bad space at that time…..
Speaking of crap I can do without, anybody else get this in their local dead tree newspaper today?
http://www.hobbylobby.com/assets/pdf/holiday_messages/messages/2012i.pdf
Their store ain’t even open yet and I already hate ’em.
Tom Levenson
@Betty Cracker: Break up some cauliflower into mini florets. Roast the bits at 350 w. a little salt and oil until lightly carmelized and cooked through. Make a sherry vinegar dressing — just the vinegar, oil and salt — and dump the hot cauliflower into it; toss.
Add your favorite mix o leaves to the salad — we use baby arugula and radicchio — and some leafy herbs. We often use a mixture of cilantro, dill, and oregano, but to each their own. Finish with some coarsely chopped roasted hazelnuts.
(this was made up by me ex pro chef spouse, and I can attest it it the bees knees)
gogol's wife
@trollhattan:
Why did I click on that?
Time to step away from the computer.
Nutella
Dan Brown’s protagonist is described as a professor of symbology at Harvard. A takedown of that: link.
If Harvard ever did offer courses on symbology surely they’d call it semiotics. Symbology is used for barcodes which is a field of study that doesn’t get a lot of attention at Harvard, last I heard.
different-church-lady
@efgoldman: One of the best bits of black humor I’ve ever seen:
http://cartoons.osu.edu/yellowkid/1895/1895-7-7.jpg
Betty Cracker
@gogol’s wife: Sounds good regardless — thanks!
@Tom Levenson: Awesome. Thanks!
bemused senior
@Betty Cracker: This is really delicious —
Kale Salad
1/4 c. Brewer’s Yeast (aka Nutritional Yeast)
2-5 T Olive oil
2 T Apple Cider Vinegar
2 T Tamari
1 Avocado
1/2-1 cup roasted pine nuts
3 T roasted sesame seeds
1 – 2 heads kale
salt and pepper
Mix yeast, oil, vinegar, tamari together in a bowl. Set aside. In a skillet (or a toaster oven) roast the pine nuts and sesame seeds till just browned. Cut the avocado into bite size pieces. Rinse kale and tear into bite size pieces.
In a bowl mix all ingredients together. Add more brewers yeast of olive oil if necessary. Salt and pepper to taste.
ruemara
@Roger Moore: Now this makes you on the side of the authoritarians.
ruemara
@Betty Cracker: Try a salad shirazi . My girlfriend introduced me to them and I’ve made them nonstop all spring and summer. To add a little more interest, I’ve diced olives, added sliced apricots or created an avocado yogurt mint dressing (1 avo, mushed to death with 1/2 cup nonfat yog, tsp acv, 7 leaves minced mint, tsp garlic. mix well, pour over and hand toss. chill)
different-church-lady
@efgoldman: Almost 120 years ago. Hogan’s Alley would eventually evolve into The Yellow Kid.
jeffreyw
Thanks to everyone for the sympathies expressed. I wish I could write a “Good Dog” story that everyone would cry over and then pass along. He deserves more but he was happy with a hug. That’ll do, Bud, that’ll do.
jeffreyw
@Betty Cracker: Hard to beat a simple Caprese salad.
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
But it would be totally unamerican to enforce such a law.
Mike G
Perched at the end of the book shelf, Mr. Austerity-Now-Austerity-Forever-Who-Checked-My-Excel-Worksheet-(and-More) Ken Rogoff.
I would have picked up a copy of “MS Excel for Dummies” and handed it to him: “Here, I think you could use this.”
gogol's wife
@jeffreyw:
I’m crying now.
Petorado
Surprised this song isn’t more popular on Independence Day: X – Fourth of July
Stillwater
My favorite of all time? Smokey Robinson, game 5, ’86 world series. Chills and tears.
Amir Khalid
@jeffreyw:
There was clearly something beautiful about Buddy that people and cats and other dogs responded to. You have memories of that inner beauty to cherish.
TrishB
@efgoldman: A very long time ago, MA police did the same kind of patrol on the road heading south out of Pownal, VT. There was a rather large state liquor store nearby. The Vermont drinking age was still 18, while Massachusetts had raised theirs to 21. Didn’t take too very long to find a less direct route.
Nutella
@efgoldman:
They stopped after the NH cops arrested them for trespassing.
CaseyL
My condolences, jeffreyw. He was a lovely fellow.
I first heard Hendrix’s rendition of the SSB in the movie “Woodstock.” The effects of weaving the sounds of the Vietnam war into the music gave me chills then and still does. Now, though, I also have a better appreciation for his genius as a guitar player.
gogol's wife
@Stillwater:
Smokey should give lessons to today’s singers in the tasteful and musical use of melisma.
jeffreyw
@gogol’s wife: And now I am, again.
SiubhanDuinne
@jeffreyw: Been with relatives all day and nowhere near a BJ feed, so this is the first I’ve heard about Buddy. I am so very sorry. What a beautiful love of a pup. Hugs to you and Mrs. J.
Mnemosyne
@jeffreyw:
Oh no! I’m so sorry. It makes it extra-hard when the other animals are trying to figure out why their friend suddenly disappeared.
SFAW
@efgoldman:
My favorite book place was a used-book store near the alley between the two Coop Buildings. (Although, having just Google-mapped it, I’m guessing that whole area has been redone since I was last there. Which was 20+ years ago, I think.) Anyway, the store had a bright blue front, was cramped as hell, but the downstairs/basement was a great place to kill about three hours looking for interesting stuff. I don’t know if I ever knew the name, but even if I did, it’s lost in the mists of antiquity/senility.